Information about the package, pki-ca, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pki-ca package is designed for, Certificate System - Certificate Authority.
Package Name:
pki-ca
Summary:
Certificate System - Certificate Authority
Description:
The Certificate Authority (CA) is a required PKI subsystem which issues, renews, revokes, and publishes certificates as well as compiling and publishing Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs). The Certificate Authority can be configured as a self-signing Certificate Authority, where it is the root CA, or it can act as a subordinate CA, where it obtains its own signing certificate from a public CA. This package is a part of the PKI Core used by the Certificate System. ================================== || ABOUT "CERTIFICATE SYSTEM" || ================================== Certificate System (CS) is an enterprise software system designed to manage enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployments. PKI Core contains fundamental packages required by Certificate System, and consists of the following components: * pki-setup * pki-symkey * pki-native-tools * pki-util * pki-util-javadoc * pki-java-tools * pki-java-tools-javadoc * pki-common * pki-common-javadoc * pki-selinux * pki-ca * pki-silent which comprise the following PKI subsystems: * Certificate Authority (CA) For deployment purposes, Certificate System requires ONE AND ONLY ONE of the following "Mutually-Exclusive" PKI Theme packages: * ipa-pki-theme (IPA deployments) * dogtag-pki-theme (Dogtag Certificate System deployments) * redhat-pki-theme (Red Hat Certificate System deployments)
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
9.0.3
Release:
53.el6
Size:
207 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the pki-ca package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install pki-ca
This command will install pki-ca on the server.
yum remove pki-ca
This command will un-install pki-ca on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pki-ca, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove pki-ca
This command will un-install pki-ca on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove pki-ca when using the -y flag.
yum update pki-ca
This command will update pki-ca to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pki-ca, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update pki-ca
This command will update pki-ca to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove pki-ca when using the -y flag.
yum info pki-ca
This command will show you core information about the pki-ca package.
yum deplist pki-ca
This command will show you the dependencies for pki-ca. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update pki-ca
This command will check if there is an update waiting on pki-ca. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.